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The Johnson M1941 is USMC issue. Not US Army issue.
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Yes true, it hasn't an official designation in the table, and the captation reports that it was issued to the USMC, while it isn't written that it was issued to the OSS and to the 1st Special Force Operational Detachment of the US Army. I had a little of room where I could have put the Reising SMG, or a Bazooka, but the Johnson was very appealing, sorry but it is no coincidence that I am on deviant art rather than on a military blog
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No problem. Just making sure you knew.
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You are and were most welcome, Johnson tried untiringly but also in vain to have his semi-automatic rifle and his light machine gun approved by the US Army's Ordnance Department.
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I know. Real shame they were never adopted, if you ask me.
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Ya, the Israeli Dror that was the evolution of the Johnson was a great weapon indeed.
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Now arguement here. I'm glad someone used it in numbers, besides the Special Service Force.
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I was under the impression that the Garand fired the same cartridge as the Springfield, 30-06. Is this wrong?
Also, happy to see that this landed on the ''hot'' section of DA
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Yes it's so, the fact is that I've reported in the table the official designation of the Ordnance Service of the US Army that was: "U.S. Rifle, Caliber 30, M1" usriflecal30m1.com/
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Very well painted. Looks very realistic.
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That knife isn’t meant for combat is it??
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www.deviantart.com/cypherxix is right, it cames from the filippino war, were it was used by the native population, it was both a machete used to clear off the vegetation and as melee weapon.
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Thanks for this extra bit of info!!
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It is. They were first 'encountered' during the Spanish American war.. you'd imagine it wasn't pretty
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But I practice Russian technique
in which it is held downward with handle in between ring and index finger so u could imagine that any round handle would cause blisters even with thick gloves
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I personally like a fattie myself I practice with butcher knife
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I see now that the handle was flat. That was wat bugged me, the wood
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Oh, nice to see you back, old friend! Pity the Browning .50 caliber didn't fit in. Otherwise, verrry nice. I've noticed the US has always endeavoured to kit out it's soldiers with good equipment, which is a lesson for many militaries around the world!!
Great as usual!
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I'm very glad to hear you again! The US Army fulfilled its men with very good equipment indeed, great envy, Italian soldier were send to Russia with cardboard sole boots!
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Yeah, and they were not the only ones with poor equipment. Very important, if you want someone to dig a ditch, give them a good shovel! 
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"ww2 US ARMY individual weapons"
Shouldn't that read "WW2 US Marine Corps individual weapons"?
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Well, there are not the Reising SMG and the Johnson rifle....
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Tells us the caliber of all the guns except the BAR and Johnson
Besides that small nitpick, this is a good list of weapons with nice info that I didn't really know in the desc ^^
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Thank you, I reported the official designation of the US Army, but I haven't found that of the BAR, while the Johnson wasn't officially adopted by the Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army, but directly bought by the USMC that had a limited autonomy, nevertheless the caliber was the great .30-06 rimless.
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Whilst they both use .30-06, the BAR could also handle several other calibers such as the .303 British
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It's true, The BAR was a best-sellers weapon, it was produced in Sweden too, Poland adopted the BAR 7.92x57 mm Mauser, the Belgium the BAR 7.65x55 mm Mauser.
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Yeah. The Swedish used their 6.5x55 mm caliber
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It's true, they changed the tactical criteria of the infantry.
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Just two quick things. The M1 Garand was semi-automatic as was the M1 Carbine. The M2 carbine was full auto and had better stopping power than both the tommy gun and the grease gun. Great detail on the paintings though. I'd love to own a Garand and a M1 Carbine. One other advantage we had was that we didn't have a bunch of different ammunition so it made it easier to supply the troops. The BAR, Garand and 1903 all used the same ammo as did both sub machine guns and the pistols.
Sorry I love history.
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The carbine was very popular, but the magazines were notoriously flimsy. The soldiers basically tossed them away when they were empty, rather than bother with reloading them.
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For an Italian it is incredible to think how rich the American army was, we had the machine gun Breda 37 that put the spent cartridge cases back in the magazine so you could reload them.
We'd better stay at our home eating spaghetti and playing the mandolin.
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Never mind, you are very welcome, yes, of course semi-automatic, my blame.
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No problem. If I had to guess, the brain was saying semi-auto and the fingers didn't listen.
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Oh yes, I've got just a serial access CPU, translating my meaning from Italian to English takes about 95% of it
Thank you again, I corrected the discrepancy, a return from a friend is always welcome.
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No problem. I'm an English teacher in real life so let me know if you ever need something checked.
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Thank you very much, you are very kind, the real problem are the phrasal verbs, it's quite difficult for me to remember what would be the right simple preposition.
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There are plenty of native speakers who have the same problem.
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hey, your back!
wait...
I think my old rusty helmet might be the M1, looking at the curve
yeah, I think it is!
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I really think it's the M1 without the net or the interior thing that i've forgotten the name of
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I think that it's called suspension webbing.
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that title works for me
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If they had katanas, the war would have ended much sooner
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Yeah because you charge an enemy with a gun using a sword...
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I would, since I know Asian fighting styles; I bet you're nowhere near my level of badass, any my katana can beat any of your dumb guns, since we all know guns are used by idiots who are not disciplined in the way of the sword.
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I'm a sniper. I would fill your head with lead before you could even pinpoint my location.
Keep the katanas to the professionals, weeb.
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